Nutritional support is an integral and essential part of the management of 5-10 percent of hospitalized children. Children in the intensive care unit are particularly likely to develop malnutrition because of the nature and duration of their illness, and their inability to eat by mouth. This article reviews the physiology of starvation and the development of malnutrition in children. A method o...

I n t r o d u c t i o n Survey of literature reveals that a number of studies have been carried out on the metabolic disturbances of virus infected plants (DIENER 1963, BAWDEN 1964, OPEL 1965). However, no work about the physiology and biochemistry of virus infected Phaseolus mungo L. (Black gram) plants has been done. In this series II) the results of the studies carried out on the changes of ...

Historically, considerable efforts have been made to understand how nutrition impacts health and productivity during the postnatal period. While maternal nutrition during pregnancy plays an essential role in proper fetal and placental development, less is known about how maternal nutrition impacts the health and productivity of the offspring. Indeed, the prenatal growth trajectory is sensitive ...

Effects of food quality and quantity on consumers are neither independent nor interchangeable. Although consumer growth and reproduction show strong variation in relation to both food quality and quantity, the effects of food quality or food quantity have usually been studied in isolation. In two experiments, we studied the growth and reproduction in three filter-feeding freshwater zooplankton ...

The purpose of this research was analyzing attitude of rural cooperatives managers in Khouzestan province toward electronic commerce, Iran. The research method was correlative descriptive. The population of this study included rural cooperatives managers in Khuzestan province. The total number of members was 101 people. Due to the limited population, census method was used. Questionnaire reliab...

Environmental challenges related to open sea cage production of Atlantic salmon have sparked interest in developing commercial-scale semi-closed systems for post-smolt (100–1000 g). Determining the mass-specific water flow required by post-smolts will largely influence design and dimensioning such systems. In this experiment, were exposed four levels specific flow: 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 L kg fish−...

User interface (UI) prototyping (UIPing) (Connell and Shafer 1989, 1995) is a commonly employed requirements elicitation and validation technique, used to determine the functionality, UI, data structure, and other characteristics of a system. User requirements are explored through experimental development, demonstration, refinement, and iteration. The UI prototype (UIP) is built during the requ...

A thorough requirements analysis is indispensable for developing and implementing safety-critical software systems such as nuclear power plant (NPP) software systems because a single error in the requirements can generate serious software faults. However, it is very difficult to completely analyze system requirements. In this paper, an effective technique for the software requirements analysis ...

Research activities on tilapia focused on Oreochromis niloticus and red tilapia. Experiments include developing new experimental and statistical procedures for strain evaluation, development of a stable reference strain, development of a high-yield red tilapia strain through introgressive hybridization, comparison of fish growth in different environments relevant to aquaculture, development of ...